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The Community Literacy Center was featured in a podcast on KCSU. “On this episode, [Christian Rhea, digital director in VP Research Office] sat down with the Director of the Community Literacy Center, Tobi Jacobi, and one of the center’s [former] interns, […]

Leslee Becker’s story, “The Airman,” has been accepted for publication in Fiction War Magazine. Matthew Cooperman and Aby Kaupang shared their new book, NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified), at Naropa University, on Tuesday, September 25. Matthew also has new poems out […]

Stephanie G’Schwind’s National Endowment for the Arts grant application, on behalf of the Center for Literary Publishing, was funded for $15,000. The grant will fund two issues of Colorado Review and the most recent title in the Mountain West Poetry […]

There is a review of Dan Beachy-Quick’s new book up at Michigan Quarterly Review: http://www.michiganquarterlyreview.com/2017/12/required-reading-dan-beachy-quicks-of-silence-and-song/ and he has three poems just published at BOMB: https://bombmagazine.org/authors/dan-beachy-quick Leslee Becker won 1st prize in the Broad River Review Fiction Contest for her story, “Such […]

Genesea Carter’s edited collection Class in the Composition Classroom: Pedagogy and the Working Class was just published by Utah State UP. She has co-written the introduction with her co-editor, Bill Thelin, and has a single-author chapter in the collection titled […]

Leslee Becker has been named a Finalist for the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Award in Short Stories. Doug Cloud’s co-authored essay, “How People Make Sense of Trump and Why It Matters for Racial Justice” has been accepted for publication in the Journal […]

Leslee Becker was named the 3rd-Place Winner of the Marguerite McGlinn Prize for Fiction, sponsored by Rosemont College/Philadelphia Stories & PS Books (“the POWER of Small”) for her short story, “The Grotto.” The Community Literacy Center is happy to welcome six new […]

On June 23-24, 2016, Pam Coke participated in an international, interdisciplinary conference titled “The Cultural Landscape of Teenagers” in Le Mans, France. Scholars from around the world, including South Africa, New Zealand, Austria, and the United States, gathered to share research and […]

~From English Department Communications Intern Ashley Alfirevic Name: Leslee Becker Title: Professor of English Program: Creative Writing MFA Program How would you describe your work in the English Department? It’s not that different from everybody else’s. It’s teaching, committee […]

Leslee Becker received the University’s Jack E. Cermak Award for Advising. Stephanie G’Schwind is very proud to announce that Colorado Review will make a second Best American debut this year: Jonathan Franzen has selected “Namesake,” by Mason Stokes (Summer 2015 […]